Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 10:42 am Post subject: Re: Ecumenism and Modern Adventist Church
Dzien Dobry wrote:
Would you care to elaborate? What happened today that is ominous, prophetic or especially significant?
I just ask those questions, because leaders of my conference, where I live became as a full members of National Council of Churches, maybe someone will clarify me one thing, how leaders of (church, conference, union, division) may WITH Babylon (fallen churches) “fight” against Babylon, if they are Adventists.
Rev. 14:8 tells clear message “Babylon is fallen, is fallen”, “come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” (Rev. 18:4)
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:51 pm Post subject: The SDA and the NCC
The condemnation of Seventh-day Adventist leaders is not that they sought membership in the National Council of Churches. Their condemnation is that they were warmly received. “Christ tried to work with the highest dignitaries of the nation. But they would not receive Him, because He told them the truth.” (Ellen G. White, Evangelism, p. 564).
The sin of the SDAs is that they have a greater passion for making friends and belonging to the world church than in proclaiming what is true.
Consider the words of Martin Luther as quoted by Dietrich Bonhoeffer: (I highlighted Luther’s comment in bold):
“How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!” (Ps133:1). ...
The Christian cannot simply take for granted the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. In the end all his disciples abandoned him. On the cross he was all alone, surrounded by criminals and the jeering crowds. He had come for the express purpose of bringing peace to the enemies of God. So Christians, too, belong not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the midst of enemies. There they find their mission, their work. “To rule is to be in the midst of your enemies. And whoever will not suffer this does not want to be part of the rule of Christ; such a person wants to be among friends and sit among the roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the religious people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been saved?” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 5, pages 27-28.
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